Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

Grayling, A. C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192854119 ISBN 13: 9780192854117

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A.C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general reader by explaining the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought.

About this title

About the Author:

A.C. Grayling is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, and Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford. He is the author of An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, The Refutation of Scepticism, and Berkeley: The Central Arguments, and is also the editor of Philosophy: A Guide through the Subject and Philosophy 2: Further through the Subject.

Review:

`Lucidly and attractively written.'
Heythrop Journal

`Anyone wanting to come to grips with the later Wittgenstein's views on philosophy, his beliefs about the nature of thought and language, and his many unignorable (if sometimes muddled and often muddling) ideas in the philosophy of the mind could do no better than start here.'
Guardian

`[Grayling] is to be congratulated on the success of his enterprise in a book which is a model of expository elgance ... an admirably clear and concise introduction'
Philosophical Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0192854119
• ISBN 13: 9780192854117
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160